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90 Minutes at Entebbe
“This is one of those ‘flash titles’ that get published immediately after something happens. Based on some claims in the book, and the publication date, it appears that it happened a couple of weeks afterwards. The writing is not great. It’s a little scattered. But it is a somewhat gripping analysis…”
Balefire
Cold Fall
The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror
Fahrenheit 451
“I wasn’t a huge fan of Bradbury’s writing, but the story is quite good. The message of the book is similar to ‘Brave New World’ – in the future, humans are so artificially satisfied that thinking deeply about anything is discouraged, even considered sinister. Thus, books are outlawed, lest they…”
“The author claims that we’ve steadily expanded the idea of ‘war’ so that we’re technically always at war, and the military is being asked to do so many things, many of which have nothing to do with actually fighting a war. She writes well, but the book got long, and the point got really abstract…”
“Both are outdated names. The group that most people called ‘ISIS’ is actually official simply know as the ‘Islamic State’ or ‘IS.’ It has been known by a lot of other names in the past, but the three most common are: ISIS : Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIL : Islamic State of Iraq and and the…”
The Kill Artist
“This is an excellent spy novel. Years ago, I listened to quite a few of Daniel Silva’s novels on CD in the car. I remember really enjoying them, and always wanting to get back to them. I looked up the Gabriel Allon series (his most successful series), and found the first title in it (this one)….”
The Last Jihad
“This is a first-rate political/military thriller. Some backstory: Joel Rosenberg wrote five books in the ‘Last Jihad’ series. Someone gave me book #4 – ‘The Copper Scroll’ – and I loved it . So, now I’m going back and reading the entire series from the start. The series has some controversy. It got…”
Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
“Certainly a thrilling book and an amazing story. Not particularly well-written, and full of lots of ‘MURICA!, ‘screw the liberals,’ and George Bush worship. The author is an unapologetic solider from Texas, so none of that should be a surprise. Incredible what the guy went through. I admit to get a…”
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11
The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
Red Storm Rising
Terrorists in Love: The Real Lives of Islamic Radicals
“I read most of this book. I finally bailed on it towards the end. It’s a look inside the minds of Middle Eastern terrorists, and why they did what they did. I gathered that the author was assigned to some hospital in the Middle East, and had the opportunity to interview a bunch of them over time,…”
“In general, no. However, there are two separate things here: (1) WMDs themselves, and (2) a WMD development program. Saddam Hussein did have older WMDs, dating back to the 1960s. In fact, he used chemical weapons extensively on his own people in the 1980s. However, he was ordered to stop all WMD…”
World Trade Center, Building 7
“September 11 is mostly known for the damage to the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. However, there were other damaged buildings, one of which was Building 7 of the WTC complex, directly across the street from the North Tower. This building was not hit directly. It was instead…”